From Empire to International Commonwealth
A Biography of Lionel Curtis
«This is an excellent book. Deborah Lavin is conspicuously fair and weighs her subject's strengths and weaknesses with elegant dispassion...an important contribution to imperial history, yet contrives at the same time strikingly to illuminate the infinite and bizarre complexity of human nature.»
Times Literary Supplement
The biography of Lionel Curtis, who was influential in extending self-government to South Africa in 1910, India in 1916, and Eire after 1921. The study describes how Curtis's views on a united Commonwealth alienated nationalists and imperialists alike. Les mer
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The biography of Lionel Curtis, who was influential in extending self-government to South Africa in 1910, India in 1916, and Eire after 1921. The study describes how Curtis's views on a united Commonwealth alienated nationalists and imperialists alike.
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- Forlag
- Clarendon Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198126164
- Utgivelsesår
- 1995
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«This is an excellent book. Deborah Lavin is conspicuously fair and weighs her subject's strengths and weaknesses with elegant dispassion...an important contribution to imperial history, yet contrives at the same time strikingly to illuminate the infinite and bizarre complexity of human nature.»
Times Literary Supplement
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